VMware 2012 Hands-On Labs

Infrastructure

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Essential IT Management with

VMware vCenter Protect

Explore vSphere 5.1

Distributed Switch (vDS)
New Features

Gain hands-on experience with VMware

vCenter Protect, VMware's unified
IT management platform for Microsoftbased machines. You will complete
essential IT management functions
in a modern infrastructure. Product
highlighted: VMware vCenter Protect.

Whats Brewing
in the Labs?

This lab explores new features of the

vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) in
vSphere 5.1. You will use the Health
Check facility, which reports on misconfigurations between the vDS and
the underlying physical network.
Product highlighted: vSphere 5.1
Distributed Switch (vDS).

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Instructions

Operations
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Automate Your vSphere 5.1

Deployment with Auto Deploy

Deliver Optimal Performance

with VMware vSphere 5.1

Manage Your vCloud Suite

Deployment with
VMware vCenter Operations
Manager Enterprise

Secure Your Cloud

with VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager

This lab will step you through performance

monitoring, troubleshooting and
optimization options in VMware vSphere
5.1. You will explore how to identify
and manage storage bottlenecks, CPU
contention, memory overcommitment
and other common performance issues
using the vSphere Web Client and
vCenter Operations Manager. Product
highlighted: VMware vSphere 5.1.

This lab covers automated performance,

capacity and configuration management
with VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise. Key concepts of health,
hands-on activities. The lab will explore
VM memory stress, datastore I/O
constraint and cluster capacity risk.
Product highlighted: VMware vCenter
Operations Manager Enterprise.

Learn how VMware vCenter Configuration Manager (vCM) can be used to

harden your cloud infrastructure and
help monitor, assess and remediate
to ensure configuration consistency
and compliance. Product highlighted:
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager.

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Implement Disaster Recovery

for the Cloud with VMware
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Deploy and Operate Your

Cloud with the VMware
vCloud Suite

Build an IT Cost Model with

the VMware IT Business
Management Suite

DynamicOps by VMware
Rapidly Deliver Private
and Hybrid Clouds Across
Multi-Vendor Environments

In this lab you will leverage various

VMware technologies to implement
disaster recovery (DR) protection
for a vCloud Directormanaged infrastructure. You will implement an
automated DR plan and then initiate a
live failover of a private cloud infrastructure to a recovery site. Upon completion
of the failover, you will verify the
recovery of both the vApp workloads
and cloud-management services.

Learn how to build and use the virtual

datacenter with the vCloud suite as
introduced by Steve Herrod. First, you will
configure and provision the necessary
resources and set up an Organization
within vCloud Director. Next, you will
gain hands-on experience consuming
resources from a provided infrastructure
and use some of the new features of
vCloud Director 5.1, including Snapshots
and VXLAN.

This lab covers the process of working

with an "out-of-the-box" IT Business
Management (ITBM) financial cost
model to drive intelligent ITBM dashboards. Key concepts will be presented
via hands-on activities demonstrating
ITBM financial management and interaction with actionable ITBM dashboards
and reporting. Product highlighted:
VMware IT Business Management suite.

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Applications

End-User Computing

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Manage Your vCloud Suite

Applications with VMware
vFabric Application Director

Build and Operate the Mobile

Secure Desktop

Build and Operate the

Business Process Desktop

See how the VMware vCloud suite can

simplify your application management
workflows. In this lab you will create an
application blueprint for Nanotrader, a
three-tier Web application based on the
vFabric suite of products. Next, you will
deploy the blueprint to the cloud with
VMware vFabric Application Director.
Finally, you will scale out tc Server app
servers and load balance them in vFabric
Web Server.

Provide a secure workspace for your

Today's users demand access to corporate resources from multiple devices and
operating systems, as well as the flexibility to work from home and remote

Learn how VMware solutions add

value to the business desktop through
an improved end-user experience,
Persona Management and universal
communications.

ThinApp and VMware vShield App.

Hands-on Labs Content Management Engine (HOL-CME)

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Learn how to use VMware Auto Deploy

to scale and manage ESXi deployments
or upgrades. With these hands-on
exercises, you will learn how Auto Deploy
can be used by your organization
to manage vSphere upgrades in an
automated fashion and improve
internal standards and compliance.

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Apache FOP

This lab will demonstrate the ability to

use DynamicOps Cloud Automation
Center to rapidly deploy private and
hybrid clouds across complex multivendor environments. Product highlighted:
DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center.

The 2012 VMware Hands-on Labs Content Catalog

is the most exciting yet! There are 36 lab topics
totaling more than 5,000 pages, 180,000 words and
2,000 minutes of lab time. An XML-based system
has been created to manage this extensive content
catalog and handle publishing to multiple end
points. The Hands-on Labs Content Management
Engine (HOL-CME) is diagrammed above so that
you can see how open technologies such as XML,
XHTML, XSLT and XSL-FO work together to simplify
the content authoring and publishing process.
Be sure to look for Lightning Labs, signified by the
orange lightning bolt badge. Lightning Labs contain
multiple modules that are only 15 or 30 minutes in
length. If you only have a short amount of time, you
can drop in, take a Lightning Lab and get a complete
story in a bite-sized format. You can come back later
and complete the other modules in the same lab

topic or move on to other topics as you see fit. It is

our hope that Lightning Labs will make the entire
Hands-on Labs Content Catalog more flexible and
accessible to all HOL users.
For the first time, at VMworld 2012, you can bring
your own device (BYOD) to the Hands-on Labs. The
BYOD delivery model will demonstrate a new way
to access and complete Hands-on Lab content on
your own tablet or laptop. A separate area will be
provided for you to connect to wireless, log in to the
portal and take labs from your own device. After the
conference the new Hands-on Labs Online portal will
go live, enabling you to take labs from anywhere in
the world. Be sure to register your interest at

http://hol.vmware.com/

Partner

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Deploy Applications in a
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
World with Cloud Foundry

Troubleshoot and Optimize

VMware View

Discover VMware Horizon

Application Manager

Gain hands-on experience with VMware

Cloud Foundry by deploying an
application and elastically scaling the
application infrastructure. You will
configure the development environment
to deploy applications to a VMware
Micro Cloud Foundry server. If you want
to learn more about Platform as a Service (PaaS) or if you are building custom
applications, then this lab is a must!
Product highlighted: Cloud Foundry.

This lab covers new performance

features in View 5.1. You will touch all
of the components of View, vSphere
and Active Directory GPOs to troubleshoot the VDI desktop and conduct
PCoIP tuning. Product highlighted:
VMware View 5.1.

Gain hands-on experience using, administering and integrating VMware Horizon

Application Manager. First, you will use
and add applications to the workspace.
Second, you will entitle applications to
users and create usage reports. Third,
you will set up an SaaS integration.
Learn VMware Horizon today.

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Enable Database as a Service

(DBaaS) in Your Cloud with
VMware vFabric Data Director

Never Lose an Email, or

a Sense of Security, with
VMware Zimbra

Create Stunning
Presentations with
SlideRocket

Experience how VMware vFabric Data

Director simplifies Oracle and vPostgres
management when they are running
on vSphere. You will gain hands-on
experience with Database-as-a-Service
(DBaaS) capabilities such as self-service
provisioning, cloning and database
upgrades. This lab is ideal for both
database and vSphere administrators.

Users today are mobile and leverage

more devices than ever before. This lab
will take you through a scenario where
a user (Alice) has just had her laptop
stolen. She had recently archived all of
her email locally and is now nervous that
she will have a compliance issue to deal
with. Thankfully the IT team had recently
upgraded their email to Zimbra version 8.
Product highlighted: VMware Zimbra.

This lab will provide an overview of the

capabilities of the SlideRocket presentation tool. You will create a free personal
account and create your first online
presentation showcasing some of the
most exciting features of SlideRocket.
You will learn how to use SlideRockets
sharing features and view analytics, and
will leave with the knowledge of how
to transform your presentations into
powerful storytelling tools.

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Secure the VMware vCloud

Suite with vCloud Networking
and Security (vCNS)

Drive PCI Compliance

with VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager (vCM)
and vShield App

Explore VMware vCenter

Operations Manager
Enterprise New Features

Automate IP Address
Assignment and DNS
Registration with Infoblox

Manage VMware vSphere

and EMC Unified Storage
Integration

Implement Cloud Ready

Databases with VMware
vFabric SQLFire

Social Collaboration for

Your Enterprise with
VMware Socialcast

Learn how to achieve PCI compliance

in a virtual cloud environment. This
lab will demonstrate VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager and VMware
vShield App working together to achieve
network segmentation. Products highlighted: VMware vCenter Configuration
Manager (vCM) and vShield App.

Implement VMware Site

Recovery Manager Using
the HP Virtual Storage
Appliance (VSA)

Secure and Simple Cloud

Backup with Mozy

In this lab you will use new features of

VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Enterprise Edition for performance
monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization of VMware vSphere infrastructure.
Hands-on activities will showcase key
features in daily datacenter operations.
Product highlighted: VMware vCenter
Operations Manager Enterprise.

Manage the Financial Aspects

of Your IT Service Portfolio
with the VMware IT Business
Management Suite

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Deliver Your IT Services

in the Cloud

Script and Develop

Your Cloud Solution with
PowerCLI and the vSphere
Web Client SDK

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

"The Undiscovered Country"

Deploy VMware vCloud

Director with Cisco Nexus
1000V and VXLAN

Enable Tenant Backup and

Recovery in vCloud Director
with NetApp Snap Creator

Security and Compliance in

Virtualized Environments
with Trend Micro

Scale Your Applications with

VMware vFabric

Learn the fundamentals of softwaredefined networking using vCloud

Networking and Security (vCNS). You
will engage in a hands-on scenario to
secure a network segment by deploying
a virtual distributed firewall for microsegmentation. This lab is a must if you would
like to learn the networking principles of
the vCloud suite. Product highlighted:
VMware vCloud suite vCloud Networking
and Security (vCNS).

Learn how VMware products from

varying solution suites can integrate to
Discover the "Mega vPOD." Products
highlighted: vCenter Orchestrator,
vFabric Application Director, vCloud
Director and vSphere.

This is a two-part lab that explores using

PowerCLI and vSphere Web Client SDK.
Products highlighted: vSphere PowerCLI
and vSphere Web Client SDK.

This lab is for IT professionals that are

looking to automate repetitive tasks as
well as learn how to integrate their cloud
with third-party systems using VMware
vCenter Orchestrator. Product highlighted:
VMware vCenter Orchestrator.

Learn how to simplify and automate the

business and financial aspects of your
entire IT service portfolio. You will utilize
cost models and CIO dashboards to gain
cost visibility and provide cost transparency; utilize what-if scenarios to identify
ways to optimize IT service costs; and
produce a "Bill of IT" to report IT service
costs and consumption via showback
and/or chargeback. Product highlighted:
VMware IT Business Management suite.

Automate IP address assignment and

DNS registration with Infoblox so that
this critical process does not slow the
deployment of your cloud. This is an
exciting lab for all cloud administrators.
Products highlighted: Infoblox and
vCloud Director.

Cisco Nexus 1000V interoperates

with VMware vCloud Director, thus
extending the benefits of rich Cisco
NX-OS features, feature consistency and
Ciscos nondisruptive operational model
to enterprise private clouds and service
providerhosted public clouds managed
by VMware vCloud Director. Products
highlighted: Cisco Nexus 1000v and
VMware vCloud Director.

Become an expert and gain hands-on

experience integrating VMware vSphere
with EMC Unified Storage. You will
configure the VSI plug-in and Storage
Viewer component, view the underlying
storage details of an EMC VNX array
and provision iSCSI and NFS datastores
from an EMC VNX array. Products
highlighted: VMware Sphere and EMC
Unified Storage.

In this lab, you will assume the role of a

consumer of a service providers hosted
environment where your mission-critical
applications are running. Products highlighted: vCloud Director and NetApp
Snap Creator.

This lab will demonstrate how an HP Virtual

Storage Appliance (VSA) can be utilized as a
supported storage device with VMware Site
Recovery Manager (SRM) without having
to use a physical SAN. You will set up two
separate vCenter Server environments with
hosts, deploy a VSA to each environment
and configure them to use storage. Products
highlighted: HP Virtual Storage Appliance
and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Learn how Trend Micro solutions help

secure virtual machines in a datacenter
that is undergoing changes such as
consolidation, new-service delivery
models or cloud computing. This
hands-on scenario involves examining
server and cloud-protection software
from Trend Micro. Products highlighted:
Trend Micro integration with vShield
Endpoint and VMware security APIs.

In this lab you will gain hands-on

experience with modern scale-out database design concepts, distributed SQL
queries, dynamic and elastic horizontal
scalability, continuous high availability
and synchronization with existing
databases. Product highlighted: VMware
vFabric SQLFire.

Learn how easy it is to scale your applications with VMware vFabric solutions.
You will walk through the applicationscaling capabilities of the vFabric suite.
The lab highlights the dynamic nature of
the vFabric runtime services, including
vFabric Administration Server, tc Server,
vFabric Web Server and GemFire.

Learn VMware Socialcast, the marketleading enterprise social network.

Socialcast enables your company to
collaborate easily on ideas, documents
and projects. Product highlighted:
VMware Socialcast.

Mozy Online Backup provides a secure,

simple way to back up your data to the
cloud. In this lab you will experience
both the administrative and end-user
experiences through two 30-minute
lightning lab modules. You will back
up files and restore a previous version.
Product highlighted: Mozy.

Lightning Lab
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